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U.S.S. Tuscaloosa commemorative covers, including "First Day in Commission" and "Shakedown Cruise" covers, several miscellaneous first day of issue stamped envelopes and other commemorative covers postmarked from the U.S.S. Tuscaloosa, and ten first day of issue stamps, most of which relate to the State of Alabama in some way

Green Underwood record book, 1843-1894, 1 record book
Record book of Green Underwood in Dallas County, Alabama, lists information about cotton purchases and money due and owed to him. He lists how the money he has should be divided upon his death. He adds entries until his death in 1852; someone else made notes and entries until 1895.

A biographical sketch of a lieutenant in the French infantry stationed in Louisiana in the 1740s and 1750s. There are also several items that look to be a serial letter. All the documents are in French and there is no translation available at this time.

This collection contains biographies of thirty-nine prominent Civil War-era figures from Alabama and correspondence to and from Mrs. Annie Daugette, chair of the committee in charge of the project.

United Daughters of the Confederacy, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Chapter, records, 1942-1960, 0.4 linear foot
Records of the Tuscaloosa chapter of the U.D.C., including meeting minutes, 1949-61; a 1942 scrapbook; newspaper articles, an essay titled "A Sketch of the Life of General Josiah Gorgas," and correspondence concerning the chapter.

This collection consists of ledgers containing: Land Commission correspondence; applications for land in Mississippi and Alabama territories; copies of land grants from England, France and Spain to residents in Mobile; marriage contracts; wills; and plats of grants, 1783-1813. Ledger 17 contains diary entries by James E. Henderson of Co. C, 12th Iowa Infantry, who was assistant provost marshall in Alabama in 1865. Several ledgers have been indexed by names.

United States General Land Office certificates of title, 1834-1898, 11 linear feet
This collection consists of Land Office certificates of title, 1834-98, arranged alphabetically by county.

United States General Land Office certificate, 1825, 1987, 3 items (in part photocopies)
A certificate acknowledging full payment for land in Tuscaloosa by John M. Fleming in 1825 and a photocopy of a statement by Tuscaloosa Probate Judge Hardy McCollum, 1987, confirming the authenticity of the document.

Contains newspaper and magazine clippings primarily covering United States history and presidents (from Washington to Eisenhower), including illustrations and comics depicting life and ideas about world events taking place at the time.

Book containing the autographs of President Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) and his Cabinet, as well as those of virtually all members of the United States House of Representatives during the 34th Congress (3 December 1855 - 4 March 1857). The book also has the autograph of Confederate General Edmund W. Pettus, written in 1903 while he was a U.S. Senator.

United States Treasury Department lease, 1864, 1 item
A blank lease issued by the Treasury Department in 1864, containing rules for hiring Freedmen.

University Alumnae Association minutes, 1934-1939, 18 items
A partial collection of meeting minutes of this service and social club for women graduates of the University of Alabama, 1934-39.

Framed "Flag of the Union" 1984 article about the 150th anniversary of the University Club

University Libraries Photographs, 1971 - 1999, 901 photographs
Color and black and white photographs depicting different events taken place at the University Libraries such as: retirements parties (1992 for Gunetta Rich; June 20, 1994 for Ann Elmore; Mary Henderson; Joyce Lamont; and Joyce Mizer held at the University Club); 1991 service award; 1994 Tutwiler award; construction of Hoole Special Collections and moving into it; 1990 Wade Hall.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings covering just over half of the 1964 University of Alabama undefeated football season and the loss to Texas in the Orange Bowl on 1 January 1965. Most of the articles feature UA quarterback, Joe Namath.

University of Alabama baseball and graduation materials, 1894, 17 items, 17 pieces (photocopies)
Photocopies of telegrams and clippings pertaining to the University of Alabama's first baseball game in 1894 with Vanderbilt and 1894 graduation exercises. The telegrams were sent to Tuscaloosa, reporting scoring as game progressed.

A miscellany of material relating to the University of Alabama Corps of cadets, 1873-1905, including invitations to the 1873 junior exhibition and Corps of Cadets hops (dances) in 1874, 1876, and 1878, and the program for a 1905 reunion of the Corps of Cadets Company E, winner of a 1885 drill competition at the New Orleans Exposition.

University of Alabama Episcopal Student Club scrapbook, circa 1925-1959, 2 scrapbooks w/photos, clippings, photocopies 2 inc
Scrapbooks of the Episcopal Student Club of the University of Alabama, which was connected to this Episcopal Church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The scrapbooks contain photos, newspaper clippings and newsletters.

University of Alabama Rotunda Excavation Materials, circa 1984, .2 linear feet
This collection contains materials relating to the 1984 excavation of the Rotunda, the building which originally housed the University of Alabama library, natural history collection, and assembly room. It was destroyed by United States Army forces on 4 April 1865. Included are newspaper clippings, memoranda, notes on the history of the campus, placement of buildings, surface surveys, and photographs, as well as material on the Pratt house and Madison and Jefferson Halls.

An anonymous farmer gives short daily entries on his activities--mostly about working tobacco fields--in two year-long diaries. The diaries are promotional pocket notebooks printed by Planters Exclusive Burley Floor of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.